20 months, 2K hours, 200K € lost. A story about resilience and sunk cost fallacy

Re:20 months, 2K hours, 200K € lost. A story about resilienc... by gautamdivgi on Sunday January 03, 2021 @11:22PM (#25627901)

System guarantees should be a part of your mvp. Code quality may or may not help you get there.

Fwiw - I can relate to the authors mindset after having spent a lifetime working in "enterprise software". As a team lead / lead engineer you're often judged on code quality metrics (did you clear code scans, security scans, code coverage scans, etc.). I'd have gone down the exact same rabbit hole as him.

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Re:20 months, 2K hours, 200K € lost. A story about resilienc... by dSebastien on Monday January 04, 2021 @03:09AM (#25628786)

The constraints just weren't the same. I had a team of 10, could organize the projects however I wanted, and had huge budgets.

It does indeed create a very different way of approaching things. The pressure is simply not the same at all.

I guess that's one of the big lessons for me so far; experience in large enterprises is not comparable to working on a small startup project without funding.

May sound stupid, but it took me time to integrate the idea :)

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